Amazon’s Jeff Bezos offers to shoot Trump into space as insults fly

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump took to the Twittersphere to insult the owner of the Washington Post after the paper ran an article on how to beat The Donald.

The Washington Post suggested that with presidential candidate Jeb Bush polling at 3 percent, his Right to Rise super PAC should use what’s left of its funds to run negative campaign ads about Trump in Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina.

That started the billionaire vs. billionaire smackdown on Twitter, with Trump taking the first shot: He said Post owner – and Amazon CEO – Jeff Bezos was using The Washington Post newspaper as a tax write off.

Trump’s estimated worth is at $4 billion, which trails behind Amazon’s Bezos, who is worth an estimated $59.4 billion and is number five on the Forbes List of Billionaires. But that didn’t stop The Donald from reminding the Washington Post that he is good at winning:

.@washingtonpost is going out of its way to tell failing candidates how to beat Donald Trump.The Post doesn’t get that I’m good at winning!

Eight hours later, Bezos, who has tweeted just four things since he joined Twitter in 2008, returned the fire by offering to shoot Trump into space on one the rockets designed by his Blue Origin aerospace company.